‘Hoop op iets vaags’: ambiguity, unreliability and indeterminacy in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999)

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‘Hoop op iets vaags’: ambiguity, unreliability and indeterminacy in Erwin Mortier’s Marcel (1999)

Erwin Mortier’s acclaimed debut novel Marcel, first published nearly twenty years ago, tells the story of a Flemish family haunted by a dark past: the involvement of several members in the wartime collaboration with the German occupier. The novel has usually been read as a narrative of reconciliatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mertens, Bram
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis 2018
Subjects:	Erwin Mortier contemporary Flemish literature postmodern historical fiction Second World War collaboration
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52510/

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